Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist...
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was the son of Antoine César Becquerel and the father of Henri Becquerel, one of the discoverers of radioactivity. Becquerel was born in Paris and was in...
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quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used. The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie...
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Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by...
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up becquerel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, named after Henri Becquerel. Becquerel...
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Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on a range of...
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Guillaume A. E. Becquerel (his son) Henri Becquerel, (his grandson) Jean Becquerel (his great-grandson) Chisholm 1911. "Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878)"...
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shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a...
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Radioactive decay (redirect from Becquerel Rays)
Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie, while working with phosphorescent materials. These materials glow in the dark after exposure to light, and Becquerel...
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from atomic physics, starts with the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896, made while investigating phosphorescence in uranium salts...
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French writer Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), French physicist who discovered radioactivity Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher Henri Mathias Berthelot...
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of Oxford in the 1992 version. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with Ernest Rutherford. Henry Ford was promoted from the "Honorary...
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named two less penetrating types of decay radiation (discovered by Henri Becquerel) alpha rays and beta rays in ascending order of penetrating power....
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the first person and the only woman to have won multiple...
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the metal, and its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Research by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and others, such...
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built upon earlier discoveries by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen for X-ray, Henri Becquerel for radioactive uranium salts, and Marie Curie (mother of Irène Curie)...
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named after Henri Poincaré Henri Poincaré did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, but he had influential advocates like Henri Becquerel or committee...
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nephew of the physicist Henri Becquerel and taught at the Faculty of Sciences in Nancy and at the University of Poitiers. Becquerel was the son of farmer...
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Bordeaux and entered the École Polytechnique, where Camille Jordan and Henri Becquerel taught. He worked in geodesy and cartography, and was involved in the...
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science dynasty. His grandparents, Marie and Pierre Curie together with Henri Becquerel won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their study of radioactivity...
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Antoine Cesar, father of Henri. Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), discoverer of radioactivity, son of Edmond, father of Jean Jean Becquerel (1878-1953), worked...
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Stratigraphy. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 325–327. ISBN 978-1405193795. Henri Becquerel (1896). "Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence". Comptes Rendus...
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original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011. What is a Joule ? Henri Becquerel Tesla's Biography Tesla (unit) Heinrich Hertz Hertz Rolf Sievert, the...
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10 – Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937) December 15 Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908) Reginald F. Nicholson...
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Jardin des Plantes and its buildings in 1820 The photographic plate of Henri Becquerel, the first documented evidence of the radioactivity of uranium (1896)...
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20th century include the mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré; physicists Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, who remain famous for their work...
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of radioactivity, for which they won a Nobel Prize in physics with Henri Becquerel in 1903. Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two...
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The discovery of X-rays inspired the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie in 1896, Marie Curie then became the first person to...
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Eugène Bourdon – Bourdon_gauge (manometer) 1849 — Henri Victor Regnault – Hypsometer 1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer 1866 — Thomas Clifford...
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magnetism upon radiation phenomena" Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943) 1903 Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) France "for his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity"...
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